Category: User Interface
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Small Changes, Large Impact: How Beta Tests Improved Amazon's App.
When most people plan to run a beta test, they think big. We need to test the entire app for usability. We have to find all the bugs before we launch. Lets rebrand our entire site. While thinking about the entire product and entire user flow is necessary, sometimes it’s the smallest things that…
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ErliBird is now BetaTesting.com!
ErliBird is now BetaTesting.com! Today, we’re excited to announce that ErliBird is officially changing our name to BetaTesting.com. We launched in 2012 as a way to connect early adopters with new tech startups. While the name “ErliBird” was a great fit then, it doesn’t reflect who we are now. Over the last 6 years, we’ve moved away from simple…
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Benefits of Using Variable Fonts
Variable fonts are becoming increasingly viable for use in your web projects. Here’s what variable fonts are, and how using them can benefit the user experience. Variable fonts vs. the usual way we deal with fonts When you pick a named font to use on your website, for example “Arial”, “Helvetica Neue”, or “Open Sans”,…
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Gradually Master Cross-Platform Mobile App Development: Learn Flutter and Dart as You Go
You’ve gotten started with Google’s Flutter SDK to build mobile apps on both iOS and Android, but what now? Here’s how to keep the momentum going and learn Flutter and Dart over time. Keep going after “getting started” This article is about how you might learn Flutter and Dart over time in a sustainable way,…
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Getting Started with Flutter SDK to Build Native Android and iOS Apps
The Flutter SDK allows you to build native Android and iOS apps, with advantages over other cross-platform methods. Interested? Here’s how to get started with Flutter. Google’s Flutter SDK is a relatively new way to build native mobile apps for BOTH Android and iOS. Since being able to quickly produce apps for both platforms’ app…
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Does Color Affect Mood in User Interfaces?
In physical spaces, color can unconsciously affect our mood. But does color affect mood in user interfaces? Not exactly. If you are about to paint a room, you’ll find no shortage of web articles ready to give you advice about what colors to choose. Some of these articles will assert that color can affect our…
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How to Prototype a Scroll Shadow in Adobe XD
Adobe XD doesn’t provide scroll state settings or scripting, but you can still imitate scroll shadow behavior in your prototypes. Here’s how. Desired design Let’s say you’ve designed this scrollable screen. The header casts a shadow at all times when you run the prototype. But let’s say, for the purposes of keeping this article moving…
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When Well-Meaning UI Text Makes Things Less Usable
If you want users to successful, it helps to know how users actually read your UI text (spoilers: they don’t), and how more text can ruin everything. A real-life example of well-meaning UI text making things worse Years ago, I joined a large desktop application project as the lead designer, taking over for another vendor.…
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Announcing ErliBird + Instabug Integration & the New Instant Bug Test
We’re happy to announce that ErliBird (Now BetaTesting.com) and Instabug have joined forces to make it easier than ever to recruit bug testers and get actionable bug testing results in as fast as one hour. On ErliBird, we have created a new Instant Bug Test package, which makes it easy to link ErliBird and Instabug.…
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